Top 21 Baroque Architecture Quotes
#1. 13 Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics
John Green
#2. Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history.
John Green
#4. Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.
Howard W. Hunter
#5. Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
Donald Cargill
#6. Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
Roland Barthes
#7. Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi
Maryam Mafi
#8. Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.
Donna Leon
#9. That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
Dave Haywood
#10. Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.
Jessye Norman
#11. The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.
David Malouf
#12. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
Kevin McCloud
#13. What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
Pablo Neruda
#14. Stop thinking about the steps. There are no moves in blues, only movement. Just listen to the music," Matt whispered into my ear.
I let go, softening into his arms. The sways became steps, and without even realising, I was dancing.
Renee Conoulty
#15. Billy switched on a floor lamp. The light from the single source threw the baroque detailing of Montana's body into sharp relief. Billy was reminded of fantastic architecture in Dresden, before it was bombed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. No one should ever be forced upon those in grief, and all over-emotional people, no matter how near or dear, should be barred absolutely.
Joan Didion
#18. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway,
#19. We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.
Henry Rollins
#21. There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.
Rush Limbaugh
